Essential Reading

With the ongoing inquest into the 7/7 terror attacks a correspondent asks: Where and who were Peter Powers’ agents in his mock bombings. Where did they go? Have they been eliminated from the enquiry OR ARE THEY THE ENQUIRY?

Housed in a warehouse in Ica, Peru, is a collection of ancient stone tablets which carry pictures portraying advanced medical practice. They open a Pandora’s box of questions and challenge everything we have been taught about our past

The terror outrages in Britain last year may not have been the work of “Muslim extremists”. A series of virtually unreported events in a Birmingham hotel suggest the covert involvement of Britain’s intelligence agencies in orchestrating events

DU was bad enough, but reports filtering out of Baghdad suggest US forces used a new type of weapon to capture the city. This is the real story behind the fall of Baghdad and it truly is the stuff of nightmares

Despite his pledges, Hitler did not implement any serious monetary reform after he came to power. He did make finance completely subservient to the State and, more specifically, rearmament. But he did not nationalize any banks. The Reichsbank was already nationalized by the Weimar Republic. He did not end interest payments to ‘the issuing houses’, who must have made a fortune throughout the war. He did nothing to decouple the Stock Exchange from the economy.

Hjalmar Schacht became Reichsbank President in August 1934. Schacht’s policies allowed full control of the economy to maximize production for war. But it did absolutely nothing to limit massive war profiteering by the financial and industrial classes that brought Hitler to power. Hitler used the monetary system that he inherited from the Weimar Republic. The Reichsmark, like any other banking unit, was lent into circulation.